Rebekah Brooks, News International chief has vowed to take "strongest possible action" if claims that the phone of Milly Dowler was hacked are proven.

This should be interesting, as she was editor of NotW at the time.

The Guardian has done some good work researching this story, and I read a very interesting article earlier today that they published in March, regarding an investigator regularly employed by the NotW and other papers, who was arrested and sentenced to 7 years in 1999 for a separate matter, but during the police investigations he was found to have paid of police, customs, tax, and bank officials to get information for the press.

One of his coleagues, who was also in the pay of the press, was jailed for child porn offences.

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The latest news is that ford are removing there adverts from the paper and more companies are reviewing there advertising strategy

Ford by pulling its advertising in News of the World

"These "companies" should be closed down. I reckon that's the only way to stop them"

The only way to stop them is for us, the great British public, to stop buying the rubbish they purvey.

That is not going to happen.We, you and I, "the public" love it. (As an individual I do not take a daily paper, and I have not read the NoW for about fifty years, but I am still part of the society which causes it to thrive)

Neither is any democratically elected goivernement going to close down any secion of a free press (even if it could), until they commit a string of much more serious offences than this.

That is a very dangerous road to start down.

I've read the various links & my opinion is...

a)Prescott hasn't a clue,what on earth can he or anyone else do to stop the buy-out of BskyB and what has this to do with the case being discussed?

b)There are some reprehensible people working in journalism if they chase a story with absolutely no notion of the possible grief they cause to the Dowlers.

It should not require laws to prevent this kind of thing happening,someone should think of the possible consequences their actions might cause & have a shred of decency rather than be solely driven by the need for a Headline.